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50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed. This article aims to show you how to attract users and make them hungry for more. Who is this post for? Anyone with a website. Not all of the items listed below will apply directly to you and your business; however, they are, at the very least, an excellent source for inspiration. 1. Write Fresh and Catchy Content If you have good content, people will always come back for more. One of the most important things about content is to keep it fresh and up-to-date. 2. If you are already lucky enough to have a community—even just some regular users—listen to them. 3. Knowing how users use your site is vital. Find out how users navigate your site via heat maps. 4. When you read your favorite blog or read an article of interest, leave a comment with your name, email address and website link.

Smashing Magazines commenting system making it easy to take part. 5. This should be an ongoing process since there are many local, national and worldwide directories. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Confirmed SEO Facts (by Matt Cutts) After many months following the blog and video posts of Google’s Search Quality Group big cheese “Matt Cutts” I have been making notes and decided to write down some of his confirmed statements.

Please note these are taken from the video blogs of Matt Cutts over the past year. Google could change their algorithms and any point on here may then become redundant. In case there are newbies out there Matt Cutts works for the “Google Search Quality Group” and has become famous (or notorious?) For his video blogs on Google . Also note that there is always the chance that everything he is telling us is in fact a load of tosh – always best to try and get some hard research to prove the theories like SEO Moz do…. On-site SEO factors- Use hyphens or commas as “Page Title” or header separators - not underscores. Links and off-site factors Other interesting facts - Currently the Google bots only crawl from ip addresses in the USA – not from any other country. 19 Obligatory Email Marketing Statistics for 2013.

As we enter the last quarter of this year, we take a look back at how email marketing, the undisputed B2B lead generation pillar, fared so far. As we enter the last quarter of this year, we take a look back at how email marketing, the undisputed B2B lead generation pillar, fared so far. Marketers would probably expect little change or difference from past years – after all, email has proven its timelessness even amidst the stardom of social media, the growing volumes of business blogs and the emergence of videos. What is interesting is that even though there are definitely a lot of quicker, more convenient platforms of instant communication out there, majority of tech users (especially in the business sector) continue to use email as a staple messenger. It seems that it has become a permanent culture of its own, which is practically as big as technology itself. For your analytical pleasure: Facebook Etiquette: 19 Rules For Businesses Using Facebook.

The 36 rules of Social Media.